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Late last year, Emily Johnson took to Reddit to share her frustration with how expensive food in Canada has become.

She fixated on one grocer in particular: Loblaw, the dominant food retailer in Canada, boasting nearly 2,500 stores.

Her Reddit group - named LoblawsIsOutofControl - was filled with photos of grocery items for sale at seemingly egregious prices, like C$40 ($29.36; £23.06) for 1.4 kilograms of chicken.

Soon after, Ms Johnson and others banded together to launch a nation-wide boycott against Loblaw, saying they were fed up with the disparity between rising food prices and record profits.

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[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Our country is becoming unliveable for anyone who isn't rich, must be because of immigrants and trans people!! (/s)

I wish people would band together to hate the wealthy instead of minorities.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

Most people do not know how to find or use communication platforms that at not operated by "the wealthy." The platforms they DO know are also geared to keeping users angry and scared to drive up engagement and keep people from leaving.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

It's easier to hate the person different from you that is directly in front of you, than the nebulous concept of some company that is far away. Plus, like the other poster mentioned, it's easy and proffitable to play on people's fears.